At the same time, a growing body of research suggests that a person's genetic compatibility, gender, age, and predisposition to illness are reflected in their "smell signature." Even in blinded experiments, subjects' smell preferences align broadly with their sexual desires. Wedekind, Claus, Thomas Seebeck, Florence Bettens, and Alexander J. "MHC-dependent mate preferences in humans." Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 260, no. Project by Tega Brain in collaboration with Sam Lavigne and Useless Press.

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These come together at the glomerulus, a structure which transmits signals to the olfactory bulb, a part of the brain directly above the nasal cavity and below the frontal lobe.

From here, the signals are fed into the limbic system, where emotion and memory are processed, before finally passing into the language-processing frontal cortex.

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A: The olfactory apparatus is a nontrivial source of information and the extent of its impact on our social lives is currently unknown.

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